Brute force attack

Quality:

Brute-force attack - cryptanalytic method for unauthorized users to access data via an exhaustive search. Article “Brute force attack” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Brute force attack”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1008 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2100 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #402 in September 2021
• Global: #7916 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8088 in June 2025
• Global: #4150 in September 2014

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Brute-force attack		44.1606
2	Slovak (sk) Útok hrubou silou		42.5663
3	Thai (th) การโจมตีด้วยกำลัง		35.9105
4	Finnish (fi) Väsytyshyökkäys		30.2232
5	Turkish (tr) Kaba kuvvet saldırısı		22.0272
6	Slovenian (sl) Napad z grobo silo		21.8355
7	Arabic (ar) هجوم البحث الشامل		21.7367
8	French (fr) Attaque par force brute		21.3931
9	Chinese (zh) 蛮力攻击		21.2326
10	Polish (pl) Atak brute force		15.5606

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brute-force attack		7 777 366
2	Japanese (ja) 総当たり攻撃		638 281
3	French (fr) Attaque par force brute		599 901
4	Polish (pl) Atak brute force		415 192
5	Spanish (es) Ataque de fuerza bruta		358 182
6	Chinese (zh) 蛮力攻击		168 028
7	Indonesian (id) Serangan brutal		83 803
8	Dutch (nl) Brute force (methode)		80 949
9	Swedish (sv) Brute force		78 391
10	Korean (ko) 무차별 대입 공격		74 830

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brute-force attack		10 650
2	Japanese (ja) 総当たり攻撃		1 433
3	French (fr) Attaque par force brute		1 054
4	Simple English (simple) Brute force attack		822
5	Chinese (zh) 蛮力攻击		781
6	Korean (ko) 무차별 대입 공격		399
7	Polish (pl) Atak brute force		357
8	Spanish (es) Ataque de fuerza bruta		314
9	Dutch (nl) Brute force (methode)		248
10	Persian (fa) حمله جستجوی فراگیر		191

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brute-force attack		380
2	French (fr) Attaque par force brute		106
3	Polish (pl) Atak brute force		60
4	Japanese (ja) 総当たり攻撃		55
5	Dutch (nl) Brute force (methode)		53
6	Spanish (es) Ataque de fuerza bruta		45
7	Chinese (zh) 蛮力攻击		30
8	Danish (da) Brute force-angreb		27
9	Indonesian (id) Serangan brutal		26
10	Swedish (sv) Brute force		21

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 蛮力攻击		1
2	Arabic (ar) هجوم البحث الشامل		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Brute-Force hücumu		0
4	Catalan (ca) Atac per la força bruta		0
5	Czech (cs) Útok hrubou silou		0
6	Danish (da) Brute force-angreb		0
7	Greek (el) Brute-force attack		0
8	English (en) Brute-force attack		0
9	Spanish (es) Ataque de fuerza bruta		0
10	Persian (fa) حمله جستجوی فراگیر		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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